Women In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Sense and ...
Women In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Wuthering Heights
The Depiction of Women in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
In their classic novels, Emily Brontë and Jane Austen create realistic portrayal of the various roles of women in Victorian society in their depiction of Catherine Earnshaw from Wuthering Heights, Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, and the Dashwood sisters in Sense and Sensibility. In Wuthering Heights, instability is continuously introduced into solid structures in order to disclose their dangerousness and their ability to change. This is a major source of the novels radical force. The characters in Pride and Prejudice reveal their own moral shortcomings; nearly every character mirrors the moral character in the world. The novel Sense and Sensibility displays Austen's contemplation and adjustment of the concept of authority. The novel depicts fathers who control their children but regulate the social identities and inheritances of subsequent generations. The novel represents the possibility of feminine authority.
In Wuthering Heights, Brontë's text affirms the instability of the world that it enters by embracing change and disclosing unsteadiness of the structures it mobilizes. Wuthering Heights is a "delirious" text that characterizes delirium. Also, it shows how the text incorporates its own instability. Characters are continuously being reborn into different roles throughout Wuthering Heights, identities are also continuously being displaced and remade. Catherine is changed from a disobedient girl at the Heights to an arrogant lady at the Grange. The heights is split between Catherine's rebellious identification with the alien energies that she represents. Wuthering Heights offers a critical allegory of Catherine's development into a socially authorized feminist. The rebellious side of Catherine is evident when she loses the love of her life.
Catherine Earnshaw is a complex character. She is loving and violent, gentle and passionate, and affectionate and willful. She is shown to be a rebellious daughter and delirious wife at the Grange. Catherine has a fatal weakness. She finds herself attracted to the gentility of Thrushcross Grange, to the calm of the lovely old house. The wuthering of Catherine's identity materializes the deliriousness of her illness. Catherine dies before the book is half over, but her spirit continues to rage in the turbulent air of Wuthering Heights. She comes back as a...